Welcome to the asylum! The forum doesn't get much use these days, most of the action is on our facebook page. I also maintain a Clan Thompson page on tartan Footprint if you care to check in and say hello.Stu

I've been looking all over these threads and I'm not completely understanding what I see. Looks like a lot of people used Family Tree DNA. I got my results from a different company, and I didn't see a place to post the results in FTDNA. It looks like they just compare results within their own database, with people who've purchased the test from them. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Didn't there used to be a big Thompson database where everybody posted their results? I read a lot of old threads that indicated things were changing in that arena, so I don't know whether that still exists or where to find it.

I purchased a GPS Origins™ Ancestry Test from HomeDNA. I have my results as a raw text file that I presume I could upload somewhere, if I only knew where and how. I would like to contribute to the Thompson database if I could. Thanks.

I'm not sure what you mean by a big text file.....Actually, there are several Thompson projects..........some are discontinued but still have data available. When you have your Family Tree DNA and kit #, you can go to ysearch.orgSet up an account so you can make it easier to see those who might have some matches with you....or, you can just SEARCH BY LAST NAME, THOMPSON, go through the spam validation, then click the number you see under "Pedigree." Additionally, you can search for a possible match by doing the SEARCH BY HAPLOGROUP and selecting your haplogroup. If you see entries under Pedigree, you will be able to open an ancestry tree. You can click on the users under User ID and see their entire Haplogroup. If you register with ysearch, they will notify you of possible matches that come in

OK, so I finally sprung for my DNA test. I thought there was a database where we could upload our results and compare with other Thom(p)sons, but I don't see the link here where I expected it. My results are a really big text file, much bigger than the ones posted here, so I'm not sure what to do.

My final games of the 2017 season was at the 30th Annual Scotland Highland Festival held at the Edward Waldo Homestead in Scotland CT on Sunday October 8, 2017. These games have always been one of my favorites because its close to home and was the first games I ever did and despite the weather it still is. On Friday, Dottie and I drove up to Farmington ME and picked up our grandson Sean and brought him back to Massachusetts to visit for a week and he came with us to the games to help with the setup.Sean came to help out. The Edward Waldo Homestead is in the background.

The weather this year (and last) was not very cooperative starting off overcast and windy and just went downhill from there. Rain, heavy at times, lasted most of the morning and ended up soaking most of my display. The rain finally stopped shortly before noon and although it was still damp we managed to get through the opening ceremonies without more rain. The remainder of the day was rain free and surprisingly the turnout, though lighter than usual, was fairly steady throughout the day. Chapman Thompson and his crew showed up marched with us in the Parade of Clans.Chapman Thompson and family helped make a good showing in the Parade of Clans.

I pretty much stayed at the tent all day so Dottie and Sean wandered the grounds and took some nice pictures of the competitions and demonstrations. Athletics are always popular as is the dancing and band competition. The highland cattle are always nice to see and this year's highlight was the 4 day old calf.Athletic competitions are always popular.

Highland cattle, Stoay sheep and the sheepdog demoonstration are lots of fun.

There was sword fighting demos and the Historic Highlanders will tell you all about life in the good old days.

After competing the pipe bands would march through the Clan Village area.

Despite the weather there were only a couple of clans that failed to answer the roll and the Clan Village was well populated. We had Clan Donald and Clan Elliot for neighbors and Clan Donald serenaded us with their piper at various times of the day. On a sadder note I said goodbye to Stu Greenlaw of Clan Stewart. Stu has been the rep for as long as I've been doing the games but he has decided to retire to South Carolina and as of this moment no one has stepped forward to take up the mantle of Clan Stewart rep. Stu will be missed.Some views of the village area.

I guess that about wraps up the 2017 games season for me here in New England. I'm looking forward to next year and hoping I can get back to the games I missed this year, Rhode Island, Glasgow Lands and Quechee, and maybe sneak in a new one so we can get back together with Alan and Heidi. Central NY looks promising but we'll have to wait and see. Any way the rest of the pics from Scotland CT are here: https://postimg.org/gallery/1trflti0c/

For the very first time Clan Thom(p)son was represented at the Ligonier Games held on Saturday September 23, 2017 at Idlewild Park & Soak Zone in Ligonier, PA. Alan and Heidi Thompson hosted the tent and Dot and I were there to assist and provide moral support.Dot, Alan and Heidi were ready to go!

The tent was a joint effort with me providing the tent, flags and poles along with some reference materials and Alan providing the bulk of the display items and the Reiver board which is always popular.The tent looked great!

Alan signed up some new members for the Clan but unfortunately he has those pictures so I can't post them with this report.

It was a very warm day but there were lots of falling leaves from all the trees in the area of the Clan Village. The location of the Clan Village was a major concern because it is a bit out of the way from all the vendors and other activities there was a steady flow of people throughout the day but it was probably only about half the number of people in attendance.You could tell it was fall!

Dot and I had a great time working the tent with Alan and Heidi and look forward to getting together with them somewhere again next year.